Louis L'Amour quote: "For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time."

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifet...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as g...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area t...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from h...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

A lady should be allowed to choose her comp'ny, an' should be treated like a lady until she shows sh...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

The mind is a basket . . . if you put nothing in, you get nothing out.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about t...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?"
"Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticip...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

You know, we worry about the Bomb, a thought interceded, and yet just look around: there are million...
ETIENNE DE L'AMOUR

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.
LOUIS L. MANN

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
LOUIS L. MANN

Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.
LOUIS L. MANN

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complicat...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding un...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Some things have to be believed to be seen.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, bu...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

A great ring of pure & endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart
And breaks apart...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of fre...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've nev...
JOHN L'HEUREUX

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created,...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and com...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable....
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, who...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than w...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

People are more than just the way they look.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel th...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg.
I Name you Calvin.
I Name you Mr. Jenkins.
I Nam...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set in...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I didn't mean to tell you," Mrs. Whatsit faltered. "I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my d...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civili...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let g...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

The peculiar idea that bigger is better has been around for at least as long as I have, and it's alw...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to h...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other hars...
MADELINE L'ENGLE

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops o...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm gro...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate muc...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

In my dreams, I never have an age.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fa...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?"

MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you se...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I wa...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, an...
L'PONI BALDWIN

He taunted me, "Pony boy, pony boy," because I liked ponies. Pony boy. He always came to vent his an...
L'PONI BALDWIN

I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her.

-Nick Plato (from the story Plato...
L'PONI BALDWIN

He couldn't take his eye off that dragon
There was something odd about the swaying of his tail<...
L'PONI BALDWIN

When he removed his robes, you could see the hundreds of scars and bruises that shamelessly decorate...
L'PONI BALDWIN

The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're a...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only de...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be fre...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Wha...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

when I’m mad I don’t have room to be scared.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Believing takes practice.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that doe...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

At Tara in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brig...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This cer...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v...
PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA''

There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what's loud and senseless talking a...
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS

if you can't have the one you love, you can love the one you have
IRAZ 'DEALOVA'

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too dista...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, now...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

You're doubtless well aware that most of the great hypnotic patients wind up referring to themselves...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and ...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

Brunettes are full of electricity.
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

There are even some stars so remote that their light will reach the Earth only when Earth itself is ...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

Losing your mind is just like ruining a flower just have to keep plucking at their petals
L

Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that.
L

Your cynical ways define your soul as you treat the people who love you with nothing more than utter...
L

Having many friends doesn't guarantee that you might still feel lonely
L

Offending people is a necessary and healthy act. Every time you say something that's offensive to an...
LOUIS C.K. (LOUIS SZEKELY)

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens
BAHá'U'LLáH

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the l...
BAHá'U'LLáH

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
BAHá'U'LLáH

I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.
ASTRID 'ARTISTIKEM' CRUZ

दो न्याय अगर तो आधा दो,

पर, इसमें भी ...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR'

वसुधा का नेता कौन हुआ?
भूखंड-विजेता क...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR'

समर शेष है, नहीं पाप का भागी केवल व्याघ�...
RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR'

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. NASH

Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I wr...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

What the people are within, the buildings express without.
LOUIS SULLIVAN

Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!
LOUIS TOMLINSON

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
LOUIS NIZER

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.&#...
LOUIS KAHN

I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town; it's for that r...
LOUIS TOMLINSON

My favorite moment is when someone says, 'I like 'Unleashed.' 'Now You See Me' i...
LOUIS LETERRIER

I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.
LOUIS TOMLINSON

As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Eva...
LOUIS THEROUX

L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British peop...
LOUIS THEROUX

You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and P...
LOUIS PASTEUR

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
LOUIS UNTERMEYER

I think Donald Trump's had a pattern of leaping on the bandwagon of anything that he feels will ...
LOUIS THEROUX

You blows who you is.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down i...
LOUIS STOKES

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
LOUIS BRANDEIS

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result o...
LOUIS PASTEUR

If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you i...
LOUIS ZAMPERINI

Look after your body, because I'm 44, and things are happening that I never dreamed of - like ba...
LOUIS THEROUX

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but ...
LOUIS NAVELLIER

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about...
LOUIS ARAGON

Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious ...
LOUIS ARAGON

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
LOUIS BRANDEIS

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
LOUIS GINSBERG

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER

When I approach a child
He inspires in me two sentiments:
Tenderness for what he is,
And r...
LOUIS PASTEUR

When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had com...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
LOUIS XIV

Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...
LOUIS C.K.

Pamela, I’m in love with you. Yeah, it’s that bad. You’re so beautiful to me. Shut up! Lemme t...
LOUIS C.K.

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...
LOUIS C.K.

Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current wi...
LOUIS SACHAR

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only ...
LOUIS SACHAR

Perhaps it's understandable to be more jaded on one's second exposure to something strange.
LOUIS THEROUX

A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realist, and their tactics ar...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you ha...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

I am the state.
LOUIS XIV

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
LOUIS NIZER

Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or be...
LOUIS MACNEICE

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
LOUIS FISCHER

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water...
LOUIS NIZER

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
LOUIS XIV

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

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For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

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